“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1: 1 KJV).
We love words. We love taaking them in, and we love giving them out. We love reading and writing. By listening and reading, we educate ourselves, and by speaking and writing, we educate others.
Words are the medium for public expression of a private thought. Words form and express the thoughts publicly that we have formed privately. Words have meaning, and we use their meaning to transfer our thoughts to others. Thoughts are coined and put into circulation with words. With words, our thoughts and feelings receive wings and take flight. Some thoughts we wisely keep wordless, flightless, and caged. Life and death are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18: 21).
Words are the medium for communicating our mental image to another. Good speakers can get the idea in their mind into the mind of their listeners with the skilled use of words.
Just as we express our invisible person to others with words, God expresses and reveals His invisible Person with words. God created man with the capability of receiving revelation from Him and understanding it and then responding to it either in obedience or rebellion.
God is invisible, but we see and know Him through His written word, the Bible (KJV). Idols are images of false gods on the ground created by the hands that originated in the imagination. Our mental image or perception of God is based on the unchanging Word of God.
Jesus Christ is called the “Word” because He is the “express image,” the public visible comprehensible expression of the invisible God (Col. 1: 15). Jesus made God visible or comprehensible in the public domain through His incarnation when He the Living Word became flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1: 14).
We will not receive another word from God. Jesus, the Living Word has gone back to the Father in Heaven. The Scriptures are finalized, and the canon of Scripture is sealed (A.D. 397). We must not take from it or add to it (Deut. 4: 2, 12: 32; Rev. 22: 18).
God has spoken through His prophets and apostles and through His Son Jesus Christ (Heb. 1: 1, 2). Their word was a message of salvation for the sinner. If we hear it and respond in repentance and faith, we will be saved, but if we hear and reject it, we will be lost in Hell forever.
